diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 3b454ce..3d8e5e0 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -25,35 +25,35 @@ classifiers = [
   "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.14",
 ]
 dependencies = [
-    "datasets==4.8.5",
+    "datasets==5.0.0",
     "fastparquet==2024.5.0",
-    "flair>=0.15.1",
     "google-re2==1.1.20251105",
-    "huggingface-hub>=0.34.0,<1.0",
     "mecab-python3==1.0.12",
     "nltk==3.9.4",
     "opt_einsum==3.3.0",
-    "pandas==2.3.2",
+    "pandas==3.0.3",
     "pip>=26.0.0",
     "pyarrow==24.0.0",
     "pytz==2024.1",
     "safetensors==0.4.4",
-    "scipy==1.17.1",
-    "spacy==3.8.7",
+    "scipy>=1.17.1",
+    "spacy==3.8.14",
     "SPARQLWrapper==2.0.0",
-    "stanza==1.10.1",
-    "tika==2.6.0",
-    "torch~=2.6.0",
-    "transformers==4.57.6",
+    "stanza==1.13.0",
+    "tika==3.1.0",
+    "torch~=2.12.1",
     "unidic-lite==1.0.8",
     "urllib3==2.7.0",
     "word2number==1.1",
 ]
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 rest = [
-  "fastapi==0.136.1",
+  "fastapi==0.138.2",
   "python-dotenv==1.2.2",
 ]
+flair = [
+  "flair>=0.15.1",
+]
 dev = [
   "bandit",
   "faker",
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ dev = [
   # "git+https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_trf-3.7.3/en_core_web_trf-3.7.3-py3-none-any.whl",
   # "git+https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/ja_core_news_sm-3.7.0/ja_core_news_sm-3.7.0-py3-none-any.whl",
   # "git+https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/xx_ent_wiki_sm-3.7.0/xx_ent_wiki_sm-3.7.0-py3-none-any.whl",
-  "httpx==0.28.1",
-  "notebook==7.6.0",
+  "httpx",
+  "notebook",
   "pytest-faker",
   "pytest-mock",
   "ruff",
diff --git a/src/risk_assessment/classification/unstructured/flair_ner.py b/src/risk_assessment/classification/unstructured/flair_ner.py
index 33bb037..a58e2e2 100644
--- a/src/risk_assessment/classification/unstructured/flair_ner.py
+++ b/src/risk_assessment/classification/unstructured/flair_ner.py
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
 from typing import Any
 
-from flair.data import Sentence
-from flair.models import SequenceTagger
+try:
+    from flair.data import Sentence
+    from flair.models import SequenceTagger
+except ImportError:
+    Sentence = None  # type: ignore[assignment,misc]
+    SequenceTagger = None  # type: ignore[assignment]
 
 from risk_assessment.classification.unstructured import Entity, EntityExtractor
 
@@ -23,6 +27,10 @@ def __init__(
         nlp_model: Any = None,
         nlp_model_name: str = "spacy",
     ) -> None:
+        if SequenceTagger is None:
+            raise ImportError(
+                "The 'flair' package is required to use FLAIREntityExtractor. Install it with: pip install flair"
+            )
         if type_mapping is None:
             type_mapping = {}
         super().__init__(type_mapping)
@@ -40,6 +48,7 @@ def split_text_into_sentences(self, text: str) -> list[str]:
         return sentences
 
     def extract(self, text: str) -> list[Entity]:
+        assert Sentence is not None
         sentences = self.split_text_into_sentences(text)
         entities: list[Entity] = []
         sentences_shift = find_sentences_shift(text, sentences)